Re: micro donations & payments -- GNU Herds base accounts

[Davi Leal]

> John Sennesael wrote:
> > It would be interesting if donators could sign up with an account and
> > 'deposit' an undefined amount of money, then receive back credits to
> > distribute among projects/pledges/whatever whenever they want to.
> >
> >
> > The advantage of a system like this would be:
> >
> >   1) You can donate to multiple projects/pledges with only 1 paypal fee.
> >
> >   2) This would allow for micro-donations. People can donate $1 or less
> >      to as many projects as they want. Since normally, a low donation
> >      would be absorbed by paypal fees.

To develop something like that, maybe GNU Herds should use as 'account', to 
allow deposit money, an:

  a) PayPal account
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paypal

     PayPal critics:
       http://paypalsucks.com/forums/showth...74&old_block=0
       http://paypalsucks.com/

       "Many people are going through Paypal limitations and problems and
        are having their money held for 180 days. ..."


  b) Google Checkout account
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Checkout

     Bad: Do not allow person to person transfer.


  c) AlertPay account
     http://www.alertpay.com/


  d) Merchant account
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_account

     For example: Real Merchant account: http://paypalsucks.com/faqs.shtml
       Reference from: http://paypalsucks.com/


  e) ClickBank account
     http://???


  f) GNU Herds could create one classic merchant account at USA and
     another at Europe?

  g) GNU Herds could developed its own system?

  ...


Maybe the final result should be a base system with a list of 
allowed-supported payment methods, bridges?